Posturing

Playing hooky from work today, Readers, folding laundry in front of Donald Rumsfeld's hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee:

I've never been ablae to stand Senator Joe Lieberman. I don't have any particularly good reason; I couldn't say a lot about his platform. Maybe it's the fact that he's a Jew who talks about his religion often and obvious enough to make someone in Jerry Falwell's choir pleased. More likely, it's something about the way he speaks. His haltering deep voice, every word connected by an "uh" just seems to make my skin crawl. But no matter. Each senator gets 10 minutes on Rumsfeld and the generals in front of the cameras. Lieberman spent the first 8 minutes of his speaking about about American morality and duty and the honor of our soldiers. Of course he brought up September 11, even taking the time to cite the death toll. He had time for a couple minutes of questions. The next senator, Sessions (R) from Alabama, took a good portion of his ime to talk about the bounty purportedly offered by Al Qaeda for Rumsfeld's murder. Is this standard procedure? Senators, this is not a campaign moment, or even a partisan moment. You have a limited amount of time,a nd you need to use it to make information public. Your opinions, your take on our wars with brown people all around the world, are not germane. You're embarassing me. Shut up and ask your questions.